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http://sajkaca.blogspot.com/2008/02/peaceful-serbians-in-zurich.html

Off topic, but ... Albanians

" ... But instead the two took Mr Craythorne to the remote village of Mal, where, according to police, they “massacred” him with knives and stole his gold chain and the keys to his family’s home. They then threw his lifeless body in an abandoned well, where it was discovered weeks later. "

" ...
Mr Phetrushi and Mr Vukaj allegedly planned to rob the apartment of the Craythornes and torture the two women into giving them access to their bank accounts. Instead they were arrested by police and have since confessed to the crime. "

What if the victim(s) had been Serb(s)?

Read it all:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3431295.ece

I like how my poster is shown! 'Kosovo is Serbia' (London protest)

I wish that we had more time to organise something bigger though

The picture of the placard with three points misses the bottom, which read "PS I am Croatian"... The protest in London was poorly attended, there were only several hundred of us, 1,500 max (though I doubt it), but at least it was held at all...

Sajkaca, I swiped one of your photos, I hope you don't mind (at the end of a scrollbox) and thank you for giving us a link for more!

Englez, then I'm truly sorry the bottom part was cut off, because that little p.s. makes the solid advice even more valuable. The photos from London are the ones our friend Mila kindly sent from demonstrations, so I used the few of those as they were, grateful to be able to do so.

I intend to add more photos as they become available (from Austria, Belgium, Poland.... there were demonstrations in so many towns past weekend) and I would like to ask readers to send the ones they have.

Thank you all!

Zdravo Svetlana. Is there a way I can repost your scrollbox in networking sites such as Myspace or Facebook? By the way, do you have a presence on either of these? Thanks...

Zdravo, Dejane!

I used just CSS and xhtml coding to make this little gallery so, although I don't know what kind of settings do the Myspace and Facebook have (I don't have pages on either of those), you should be able to copy and paste the whole code into the html page (from view > page source), after uploading each image to the part of the server they give you with the allocated space and, renaming them to fit your web page address.

I just want to ask everyone to try to refrain from hotlinking to images on my server directly (especially people on various forums, internet cafes, and chatrooms - I know that's the easiest and most people, apparently, don't even stop to think about it, but it is a tremendous strain on my site and budget... keeping this up does cost money and I can't finance the countless forum galleries.

There are a number of free-of-charge sites where one can upload tons of images and use them on forums and other similar sites - PhotoBucket.com is one of them - please use those and be kind to poor webmasters :-))

Aside from that, good luck to all who wish to spread the word and thank you!

As an American, I am disgusted by the stand my country has taken regarding Serbia and its province of Kosovo.

I realize that most Serbs are tired of the conflict and still smarting from the Clinton NATO bombing but if this is not a reason for war then I don’t know what is. Stand up for yourselves and take back Kosovo before it is gone for good!

For a while, I thought that the main problem is grand treason of the puppet leadership installed in Serbia to serve the interests of Washington and Brussels. Although that remains a problem that will have to be solved sooner rather than later, I've recently realized there is another, possibly a bigger issue right now which is preventing Serbia to use force to reclaim part of its territory: the fact that Resolution 1244 applies to Serbia too.

Serbia is between the rock and a hard place now, in that it can't demand respect for international law and for the legally binding UN Security Council resolution and break it at the same time. UNMIK and KFOR troops that are in the province right now have the right to be there according to Resolution 1244. If Serbia would send its army in, it would be the one breaching the Kumanovo agreement it signed, which received the international seal of approval in Res. 1244. And Serbian Army can't fight the illegal - unwelcome and uninvited - EU mission alone, without breaching the UN SC resolution.

I think that, right now, they have no other alternative but to take the legal issues all the way, suing the states that have violated the international law and numerous agreements they signed (including the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, signed by each of the states that have recognized an illegal entity on Serbia's territory, which expressly says that no borders can be changed without the consent of the state in question).

At least the official Serbia has no other option right now. Individuals and groups of like-minded people are another story altogether - they have a whole range of options.

At the same time, if it turns that UNMIK and KFOR are breaching resolution that is the only legal basis for their presence on Serbian soil (such as attack on Serb and other non-Albanian residents, or protesters, or an attempt to enforce the illegal declaration of Pristina separatists by establishing "borders" within Serbia and imposing themselves as Thachi's troops against non-Albanians in the province whom they are supposed to protect, etc.), then Serbian Army and police would have sufficient reason to intervene militarily, if for no other reason then to protect civilians from NATO and its extremely savage wing, KLA.

Hello Marko.

I am sorry that didn't fir in my camera, but because I was so close, I tried my best to take the whole photo. Unfortunately the walking area designated for pedestrians was just too close for me to take a photo.
Svetlana posted the photo how I got it uploaded.

Apologies for that.

According to the 1244 Serbia has the right to the military option if violence spills over to Serbia proper (which it will sooner or later)and if the UN-forces fails to restore "order". Then Serbian tanks are free to enter it´s southern province.

Bearing in mind the "peace keepers" (occupation forces) latest "attempt" to "guard" Serbians during the 2004 pogrom, this might not be a long shot. Since Kosovo legally is Serbian, the military also has the duty to protect it´s citizens no matter what treaty (if NATO where to shoot at Serbs).

Latest news also reveals that the €Urofascist governor-mission that fled less than a week ago from the northern parts are testing the ground again for another attempt to establish there (they dont get it do they?).

I belive that talk won´t do. There are no better means than using force to reclaim our occupied province against this enemy (and with our powerful support). Now when the quislings are almost out, this option must be declared "on the table" so that the €Urofascists understands the message.

I think the Serbs should challenge NATO and the EU by starting a partition of Kosovo and aligning northwest Kosovo with Serbia and see what they do in response, or dare they do anything?

Serbs could move military units to protect this land and if NATO dares to fight this, Russia will be forced to step in.

Note to Svetlana my letter will be printed in USA Today's newspaper on Wednesday, they are planning a Kosovo section of the newspaper either Wednesday or Thursday.

I was published once before in print with this massively circulated paper back in 2001 when the Kosovo situation spilled over into FYR-Macedonia and warned it could spread further. I may have not hit the protest's yet but I am getting the message out in a major way across the U.S.

Thank you, dear oxi and Mila - you did great!

The latest three photos added above are from demonstrations held in other three major German cities, Munich, Frankfurt am Main and Düsseldorf (in addition to the images we have from Stuttgart), courtesy of our great friend, Heribert Schindler (visit his wonderful web site Rossiyskaya Federazia).

I find it especially encouraging to learn that a lot of Germans joined Serbian protests and are standing side by side with us, despite the German government extending unlawful recognition to the mafia state on Serbian territory. Heribert tells us that, among some 1,500 protesters in the city of Düsseldorf around 300 were Serbs, while the rest were Germans.

For additional wave of encouragement, visit the web site of another brother in this struggle, Lars Johansson.

Next year in Pristina!
(And we should remember to invite all our friends throughout the world to join us on a massive international celebration of justice winning)

Here is my letter, it is also in print edition for this newspaper!

Kosovo's new independence opens Pandora's box
Pete Papageorge - Oshkosh, Wis.

The media seem to be fascinated with the celebrations of Kosovo's independence instead of discussing the cold, hard facts and implications of such a recognition ("Serbian leader demands end to rioting; U.N. police attacked," USATODAY.com, Friday):

(Photo — Cheering on Kosovo: Celebrants dance in Tirana, the capital of Albania, which borders Kosovo. Ninety percent of Kosovars are ethnic Albanians. / By Gent Shkullaku, AFP/Getty Images)

* Kosovo's prime minister, Hashim Thaci, was the commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a shadowy rebel group classified as an international terror organization until United Nations Resolution 1244 disbanded it. The U.S. government continues to support Thaci's shadowy ways by recognizing Kosovo's independence.

* What about international law, national boundaries and sovereignty? U.N. Resolution 1244 guarantees Kosovo is to remain a part of Serbia. The U.S. government and the European Union have responded with fancy lawyer-speak about how it does not apply anymore, but I have not seen it brought up before in the U.N. Security Council or in an international court of law. Until that happens, it should be treated as hearsay. You cannot just steal land away from a nation without its approval. A few years ago, Montenegro negotiated with Serbia to become independent, so why cannot the U.S. government and the European Union be more diplomatic and search for a settlement?

* The implications of such a recognition will destabilize vast parts of the world. Every separatist movement now has the means to ignore international laws and sovereignty, from the Lakota Sioux Indians who recently declared independence in the USA to the Basques who sought independence from Spain to the Turks in northern Cyprus. Pandora's box has been opened in this region.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/02/kosovos-new-ind.html#more

Well done, oxi! Concrete, to the point and concise. Thank you for forwarding it here too!

Cao Mila,

No worries, at least you got some of it! :)

If we have another demonstration I will be printing some big banners.

Good job, Marko! Thank you!

There will be more - plenty more. Next year in Pristina!